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Childcare grant

Please can somebody help?!I started a foundation degree in September...I have been paid my tuition fee and standard grant but hadn't heard anything about the childcare grant.
I phoned SFE earlier and they said I wasn't eligible as we were over-scale??I don't really understand what that means..my partner earns £19,000 a year...I was under the impression that if the household income was under £25,000 that we'd get some help.
Does anybody know what the thresholds are and can anybody help?
Thank you...Laura x
Hello.

The £25000 figure is assessed for your maintenance loan and grant. Your childcare and parents learning allowance is a calculation of your income. Using a disregard from your income from the table below. We remove this from the income and then remove the maximum parents learning allowance £1523 and the child care if there is still income available you are classed as over-scale. Thanks



Family Situation
Disregard Amount
Eligible student has no dependent child
£6,159
Eligible student is not a lone parent and has one dependent child
£8,473
Eligible student is not a lone parent and has more than one dependent child
£9,627
Eligible student is a lone parent and has one dependent child
£9,627
Eligible student is a lone parent and has more than one dependent child
£10,792

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